US ATLAS Physics Support, Software and Computing Technical Planning Meeting 2016

from Monday 1 August 2016 (09:00) to Wednesday 3 August 2016 (12:30)
University of Chicago (Eckhardt Research Center 161)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016
3 Aug 2016
AM
09:00 Welcome - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) Paolo Calafiura (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:20
Distributed software - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 10:10)
09:20 From "Next Generation Workload Management and Analysis System for Big Data" to "Big PanDA Workflow Management on Titan for High Energy and Nuclear Physics and for Future Extreme Scale Scientific Applications ". DOE ASCR Exascale Computing Project - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
09:35 VC3 - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))  
09:45 HEP cloud - Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
09:55 Discussion  
10:10
Distributed software - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 11:00)
10:10 WFM SW projects highlights - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (University of Texas at Arlington)  
10:25 Pilot 2.0 goal and timeline - Paul Nilsson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
10:40 Harvester. Goals, timeline - Tadashi Maeno (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:20
Distributed software - Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington (US)) (until 12:00)
11:20 APF - John Hover (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)-Unknown-Unknown)  
APF
11:25 ARC slides as reference - Nurcan Ozturk (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
11:30 Discussion  
08:30
Core Software - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) David Malon (Argonne National Laboratory (US)) (until 09:30)
08:30 Introduction - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
08:50 Discussion  
09:00 Metadata handling challenges for the future - Jack Cranshaw (Argonne National Laboratory (US))  
09:20 Discussion  
09:30
Physics Support - Will Buttinger (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Nils Erik Krumnack (Iowa State University (US)) (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:50 --- Tour of MWT2_UC ---
11:59 --- Lunch on your own ---
08:30
HSF Community Whitepaper - Michael David Sokoloff (University of Cincinnati (US)) Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)) Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US)) (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:30
HSF Community Whitepaper - Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 11:30)
10:30 Short Introduction to GNNs - Gilles Louppe (New York University (US))  
10:40 Thoughts on longer term strategy for G4 in ATLAS - Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
11:00 ATLAS's ISF as a Global Project - Zachary Louis Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
11:15 GeantV and Fast Simulation - Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:30
HSF Community Whitepaper - Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 12:30)
11:30 ML and Analytics in ATLAS - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)) Alexei Klimentov (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch on your own ---
13:20
US ATLAS Facility - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) Eric Christian Lancon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 14:30)
13:20 Network Analytics and the Cost Matrix - Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
13:35 Role of CEPH in the Facility and Distributed Storage - Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US))  
13:50 Automating Deployment - Lincoln Bryant (University of Chicago (US))  
14:05 Caching Network Status and Plans - Wei Yang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
14:30
US ATLAS Facility - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) (until 15:30)
14:30 DOE HPC Integration Summary - Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))  
15:15 NSF Resources: XSEDE, Blue Waters, Campuses - Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US)) Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
US ATLAS Facility - Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 17:00)
16:00 Event Service today: progress, problems and challenges - Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Wen Guan (University of Wisconsin (US))  
16:20 Discussion  
16:30 Event Service performance optimization on HPC - Doug Benjamin (Duke University (US)) Taylor Childers (Argonne National Laboratory (US))  
16:50 Discussion  
17:00
Physics Support - Alexander Undrus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Ayana Holloway (Duke University (US)) Erich Ward Varnes (University of Arizona (US)) (until 18:00)
17:00 Transition to Continuous Integration Practices in ATLAS Software Development - Alexander Undrus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
HSF Community Whitepaper (until 18:30)